The depth of the dysfunction of the 🇬🇧 politics laid bare by today's FT piece leaves me struggling for words, grasping for how to explain what is happening... but here's a blog post about what's on my mind
jonworth.eu/uk-politics-al…
jonworth.eu/uk-politics-al…
This draws on Colin Crouch / Post-Democracy, some of @PeterKGeoghegan democracy being bought, @rafaelbehr on totalitarianism or not, and @davies_will on how the British population seems incapable of engaging with politics
It's as if the country does not know the country it is living in, as if human reality and government decision are divorced from each other. Where what is true is so hard to discern it's lost among hubris
I don't know where the hell 🇬🇧 goes from here. Everything is broken. Politics, media, the economy, the lot
At least in 🇩🇪 or 🇫🇷 you know what life is going to look like once COVID is over. But 🇬🇧?
At least in 🇩🇪 or 🇫🇷 you know what life is going to look like once COVID is over. But 🇬🇧?
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